PROF. SACCARDO’S ‘SYLLOGE FUNGORUM,’ 247 
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1415 plates of plants. Dr. M. C. Cooke presented 281 plates of 
British Fungi, from works published by him on these plants. 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Sylloge Fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum. Vol. iv.—Hypho- 
mycetes. Prof. P.A coarDo. Patavii, 1886. 
1es. 
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which it could be truly said that the absence of conspicuous hyphe 
was the only bond of union. The idea of uniting such genera as 
Phoma, Torula, and Puccinia in the same 
entertained by one who looked most superficially at the merest 
accidents of external form. But it is well known that Fries felt 
somewhat of a contempt for these lowly Fungi, and his ungenerous 
treatment of Corda, who made them his special study, may perhaps 
ha i uis feeling. 
ve been due in part to this feeling cies as Sporodesmium 
Mm ; : 
sufficient warrant for dividing them, but to p org meter sara 
is to break the most elementary axioms of taxonomy. is 
